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Chicago examiner price one cent delivered by carrier 30 cents per month vol vi no 157 a m monday june 22 1908 10 pages labor in Illinois pledges votes to john mitchell for governor state federation plunges into politics with a general call to the primaries o.k on other candidates resolution asking toilers to cast ballots against Taft is introduced candidates indorsed by labor john mitchell governor s j drew rep iiient governor dr j mcguire quincy assembly h w wilson springfield assembly j p morris springfield assembly a kenson decatur assembly t d bare calhoun county assembly w d ryan hep springfield . congress walter bush dem peoria assembly w downey sep lincoln . assembly springfield 111 june 21 0 ganized labor in Illinois entered the arena to-day as an active political factor the state federation in district convention indorsed john mitchell for governor and pledged itself to vote for him in the primaries on august 8 and to do everything in its power to land him in the guberna torial chair next november if he is made the democratic candidate candidates for the state legislature and for state offices who are known friends of union labor were indorsed and an active campaign to get every labor unionist to go to the polls on primary day was begun one hundred representatives nf union la bor gathered from all parts of the state a lively fisbt marked the very opening hour president e r wright called the meeting to order at once there was n troduced a resolution widening the scope of the meeting the convention had been called to con sider the new primary law and its effect upon organized labor when the delegates arrived a strong demand to throw the en tire political situation open to discussion manifested itself in a resolution amending the call to make it read and such other matters in connection with the political sit uation that this body desires to act upon wright opposes amendment president wright led the fight against the adoption of the amendment to the call secretary j f morris and henry walker both of this city led the faction that fa vored it at times the discussion becamo hotter than the heat outside i am in harmony with this convention in any political action it may take shout ed wright but this convention is called for a speclllc purpose the consideration of the primary law and i am opposed io changing the call at this time the debate became loud and once or twice the convention was on the verge of riot but the question was finally put to a vote which disclosed practically no oppo ttuon the amendment being carried by &> to j the fight on this subject occupied the en tire morning but the gates had been opened and during the afternoon with th thermometer at more than 100 lu the stuffy little hall organized labor of lllinoii was put through its ttrst moves as a polit leal pow-er fieldstack called traitor appeals to union men to stick together a wide variety of opinions on the primary law and what it means to labor and an extended dissertation on socialism mixed promiscuously in the free and easy oratory and discussion that was permitted by the lenient chair ' charles fieldstack phlcago who was elected to the last legislature as a labor unionist was openly accused on the floor of having betrayed the labor union move ment by working against labor reforms favored by governcr deneen the attack on fieldstack was extremely bitter field stack was made chairman of the commit tee on labor and industrial affairs of the house and in that position was in control of all labor reform bills delegate harding of Chicago branded fieldstack as a traitor and vigorous ap plause greeted his words this afternoon's discussion showed the Taft has narrow escape from wreck on train as rod on engine breaks engineer declares luck alone pre vents derailing of flyer and great loss of life pittsburg pa june 21 secretary of war william h Taft republican nominee for president had a narrow escape from death between dennlston and coshocton in ohio to-night on the fast train of the fittsbttrg cincinnati & st louis railroad while traveling at fifty miles an hour the piston rod of the locomotive broke and the train narrowly escaped derailment the engineer of the locomotive explained that it was merely good luck that averted a bad accident and great loss of life if the piston rod after it broke had gone under the train said he we would have gone into the ditch as we were run ning fifty miles an hour and the derailment would have been a serious matter for tunately the broken rod landed four inches outside the left rail that saved us mr Taft didn't appear to mind his narrow escape nor did it interfere with his appetite while waiting for another engine at the scene of wreck he wired to eittsburg to have a lunch made ready for him on the train's arrival there when be got off he attacked the lunch vigor ously talking all the while to friends nhont the weather and kindred topics he said he knew nothing about the train accident until told by the conductor of his narrow escape mr Taft left pittsburg at 12:50 and will reach the manhattan hotel in new york to-morrow morning where he will be joined by mrs Taft aerodrome makes 34 miles an hour speed curtiÂ«b junebug flyer covers 1,266 feet in 25 seconds hammondspobt n y june 21.â€”sev eral thousand people to-day witnessed the longest public flight of a heavier than air flying machine when the aerodrome cur tlss junebug covered 1,266 feet in twenty five seconds traveling at the rate of thirty four miles an hour this is the third ma chine produced by the aerial experiment association of which dr alexander gra ham bell is chairman the first attempt was 456 feet at twenty-eight miles an hour and the second flight was 415 feet at a thirty-one and a half mile rate xo at tempt was made to go higher than twenty five feet the junebug has a pair of wings in a fixed position and is propelled by two smaller ones which beat the air in the rear greatest cruiser will take prince to canada new warship of great britain is 530 feet long london june 21 that monstrous formidable warship britain's new armored cruiser indomitable will convey the prince of wales and his suite to canada for the approaching celebration of the quebec ter centenary so the loyal canadians and perhaps their neighbors to the south will have opportunity to see the newest float ing proof that great britain yearns to preserve the world's peace this great war vessel is the fastest the longest the largest and the most heaviiy armored cruiser afloat she displaces 17,250 tons and is 530 feet long president will reply to japan letter story official statement to be issued to day says loeb oxbtbb bay x y june 21 president boosevelt to-morrow will make public a statement regarding the report that he has seut japan the sharpest correspondence ever sent to any nation the announcement of the existence of this sensational diplo matic note was made last night by congress man b a hayes before the asiatic ex clusion league at san jose cal who said the president had told him that japan had been sent such a letter when secretary loeb was first asked to-day regarding the congressman's speech he said he had no personal knowledge of the matter later before the president he said there would probably be an official statement upon the japanese matter to-morrow told he is blind has hysterics regains sight new york june 21 james cantillon former member of the pes moines iowa baseball team and a brother of joseph cantillon manager of the washington american league club was told by special ists here to-day that he was hopelessly blind the announcement caused hysterics and when cantillon became calm he found he could see his right eye was injured seven months ago and was removed in a Chicago hospital to save his left the left eye became worse and to-day specialists had given up hope of his ever being able to see again blow on head gives man dual identity for six months george b harrison kansas editor found chicken-farm ing in southern california debt restores his mind writes himself letter to settie claim and gives wife clew to residence topeka kan june 21 stranger than any tale of fiction the story of george blair harrison son of colonel t w har rison formerly mayor of topeka presents features which stamp mm as unique among victims of abnormal mental distortions harrison until january 4 was one of kansas best known newspaper men an ann arbor graduate a thirty-second degree mason husband of a beautiful wife and father of two boys harrison occupied an envied position in topeka society under the name a h gresham this same man since jnauary 4 has labored on a ranch near san diego and made a name for himself as an expert in poultry raising evincing a keen intimate knowledge of the latest methods in the forced feeding of fancy broilers seemingly obtainable only by years of close study hairison until january 4 had never spent a day on a farm nor raised a chicken causes own restoration as gresham harrison believed he had had business relations with a george harri son in st louis during the world's fair and the thought that he still owed harri son 13.50 for fair souvenirs that he had undertaken to sell for harrison disturbed him mighrtily about two weeks ago gresham wrote a letter to george harrison at topeka and mrs harrison received the letter which read as follows about those world fair souvenirs and cards i took on consignment from you two years ago i nave not forgotten them but it seems that i have been taking you at your word on using all the time i need to work them oft the japanese trays were no good and i had to dump them but all the stuff that would stand advertising printing i had a market for last winter but in kansas city i got a strong-arming down near the tinlon depot that relieved me of my grip with this stuff and pretty much all else i had too for a week i could not even recollect my own name through a welt on my head i should have sent the money early this spring when i had it if i could have : thought of your name and address i could , remember that i owed it but not to whom or how ln fact the s w yt of my cocoa ' nut is still not just what it ought to be i as the fellow says ! wife grasps the clew mrs harrison had never heard of an h gresham but she recognized in the lettel a strong resemblance to her husband's ! handwriting i presently gresham received a lettet j from mrs harrison asking him to send bet a photograph of himself and a description of any marks by which he might bt identified in answer to his letter com plying with her request gresham uexi received the following telegram fron ' topeka you are my husband without a doubt every identification complete am wlrinj " money for your journey to topeka hat better not travel alone communicating with her sister mrs b w swan who went to los angeles twt ' months ago mrs harrison asked that mrs t swan locate the missing husband befort ; mrs swan could put the plan in effect sin , received a telegram from her brother-ln " law stating he was leaving for san l)leg t and would reach los angeles saturday . night - memory is restored " â– > at the station harrison walked straigh by his sister-in law who was awaiting hi 4 recognition as she caught up with bin she threw her arms about him and gav f him a kiss much to his apparent embat t rassment don't you know me george mrs â– swan asked fearful of an utter lack o ' mentality but he answered with a broa e smile i reckon it must be my sister-in-law can't imagine anybody else would be likel to give me jnst that kind of a greeting harrison will leave los angeles for to peka and his family to-morrow morning woman's neck is broken by fall from a buggy youth who accompanied her disap pears and police seek him mrs martha white twenty-three years old imo north wood street was thrown from a buggy at kinzie and north woo.l streets last night and killed iter neck was broken thomas lynch twenty years old who was driving with her was also thrown out when the horse became unman ageable hut jumped up apparently unin jured and pursued the horse six detec tives were unable to find the man or the buggy the police searched all night for lynch who lives at the same bouse where mrs white and her husban i boarded voung bride missing oak park alarmed mrs samuel dunlop rails to meet husband at bisbee residents of oak park are alarmed over the disappearance of mrs samuel dunlop aped seventeen formerly miss margaret harvey who was secretly married may 2 and who has not been heard from since she started to bisl.ee ariz last monday to meet her husband who is twenty a telegram from the bridegroom to the voung woman's father yesterday an nounced that she had not yet arrived dun lop was to meet his bride at oklahoma city okla but the ticket was bought for bls'bee two days before their marriage staortlv after young dunlop had fallen heir insane pastor with mania to slay is killed by flock reason returns as he falls with dozen wounds and he forgives men had shot four persons roamed at night bent on murder while wife ran ahead warning people hermann mo june 21 father for give them for they know not what they do riddled with bullets from the guns of a dozen members of his congregation the rev valentine strauss maniac pastor of the german evangelical church at stople regained his reason a few seconds before his death and with his last words prayed for the kneeling and bareheaded men who had killed him they have been exon erated the kev strauss became insane two months ago with homicidal mania he began roaming the country at night with a shotgun in his hands and a rifle swung over his shoulder from crags and tree tops he fired at men women and children most of the time he missed but on four occasions his aim was good and three men and a woman were slightly wounded leaves home to kill just before his death yesterday he start ed from his home at stople fourteen mi'es southwest of here for fredericksburg three miles from here with intent to kill his wife ran before him shouting a warn ing to neighbors at the blacksmith shop of max knieche she was but a few hundred feet in front of him she shouted warning to the men in the shop just as strauss turned and fired at her he missed then he turned his rifle on knieche again he missed knieche and a dozen armed men who were in the shop ran toward the minister who was again preparing to fire six double-barreled shotguns and an equal num ber of rifles were lired point blank at the mad clergyman's body dies after forgiving slayers wounded in a dozen places the dying pastor staggeved across the roadway into a i pasture and sank under a large oak tree where he had held his first religious serv ices in gasconade county his slayers ran forward and surrounded him strauss head was pillowed on his wife's lap the light of reason gleamed in his fast glazing eyes for the first time in two months he spoke a few words to his wife and then turned his eyes on the bareheaded men kneeling about him looked at theii weapons crossed his hands over his breast â€¢ and died with the words of forgiveness on respect for the cloth kept mr strauss alive for a long time kather than shoot . him his neighbors fled and hid when he was coming 1 in the daytime he would remain at home i for the most part at night he would roam ; the woods armed and trying to kill ; wife gives warning ' mrs strauss spent a great deal of her - time roaming the country in advance of her husband warning neighbors of his ap ' broach in the dead of night she would " come to a cottage and announce that her ; husband was approaching then the shut ter's would be closed the door barred and r the master of the house would sit behind ? it with a gun across his knees and wait until the maniac had passed mrs strauss and their five children es caped unhurt u s grant 11 admires Taft despite speech los axgkles cal june 111 - â€” Taft and sherman are certainly to my liking - ' declared d s grant jr of san diego to-day at the van nuys hotel the reference in mr Taft s speech at the tomb of general grant on decoration day to the fact that the great general had once lieen addicted to drink is not considered by mr grant as meant for a reflection on the character of his father mv sister mis nellie grant sartorls was present when mr Taft delivered his smell " said mr grant and she has in formed me that there was nothing what ever objectionable in anytnlng that was aid by the secretary of wa '. on the eon jrary we believe that mr Taft only in what the storm did henry bermen james norton and fred f redsford milwaukee yachtsmen rescued off racine john coombs Chicago and fred suhr menominee mich drown while bathing victor meyers john munn and george lewis were rescued from raft at rogers park crews of three yachts rescued from overturned crafts in the chicago-michigan city race fair buildings at libertyville struck by lightning and burned first presbyterian church mich igan city struck by lightning and burned heat fatal to three yacht which narrowly escaped be ing wrecked near michigan city its captain and crew sketch of area af fected by storm incidents being num bered as follows 1 overturned yacht picked up 2 etnjr towed to milwaukee ... lake county fair buildings struck by lightning and burned 4 three boys rescued off rogers park from overturned raft 5 yachts in collision in race to michigan city 6 mohawk struck by squall 7 church struck by lightning and btirned in michigan city ind nurses stop fire panic in hospital miss may capron at west side institution heroine of p and s college blaze simultaneously with the turning in of an alarm by a policeman when the col lege of physicians and surgeons ogden avenue and lincoln street was discov ered to be on fire at 10 o'clock last night miss may caprop head nurse in the west side hospital adjoining sent in a special call for forty nurses and prevented u general stampede of the patients there are 100 convalescent patients in the hospital and they were soon made aware of the close proximity of the fire by the hoarse shouts of the firemen and the glare of the flames a mad rush for the exits and tire es capes followed but the pauic-strlekeu pa tieuts were met by the nurses who had responded to the call sent by miss capron and quieted they came from the nurses home at 701 west congress street the lire started in the chemical labora tory on the third floor of the building and gained rapid headway for fifteen min utes after the arrival of the tire depart ment it was a question whether it could be prevented from spreading to the hos pital building the corridors of the hos pital were filled with smoke but the doors of the rooms were kept closed and the patients were not greatly incon venienced the greatest danger was that crazed by fear some ot the patients on the side of the building where they could sure the lire would jump out of the windows miss capron took charge of the relief corps of nurses and placed them to the best advantage they assured the fright ened patients that there was no danger but stood ready to aid them to escape if the signal should be given the college is immediately west ol the hospital and the two buildings are con nected with several passageways across the street south of the burning building a simitar scene was being enacted in the t'niversity hospital with miss xel lie mcculloui playing the role of heroine the clanger was less however and she had less difficulty with her patients the county and prances willarcl hos pitals are also in the neighborhood and the nurses and attendants in these institu tions were kept bo#y quieting the nervous patients the lire burned its way through the roof but was finally put out with a damage of about s'j.."ioo bicyclist dangerously injured by automobile andrew hansen twenty-five years old 159 upton street was struck by an auto mobile and severely injured while riding a bicrcle south in sheridan road near mel rose stieet yesterday morning lie was taken to the Chicago onion hospital where it was found he had suffered a frac tured sk.:il and probably internal injuries the automobile was owned by m kirk man 1419 ridge avenue evanstou it was driven hv m balr kirkman's chauf feur who stopped his machine and took speedy auto party kidnaps policeman glengoe timer beguiled by false promises and town loses fine special policeman frank h moore of glencoe declares it is a shame to take money for police duty when he is given free automobile rides and furnished with good cigars to smoke at noon yesterday moore arrested a chauffeur driving three men through glencoe at about twenty-five miles an hour drive back to the timers and we will get your speed said policeman moore as he stepped upon the side of the machine we are in a big hurry to get up thj shore said one of the men get lu and we will go over to the judge and pay our fine so we can be on our way moore got in and they started for the town hall but the machine speeded up and the driver refused to stop and when moore tried to climb the front seat to guide the machine into the fence the pas sengers held him back when the machine was making a speed of about fifty miles an hour the men re leased moore and told him to get out any rime he wished he was finally hauled three miles the other side of waukegan and turned loose in a field to make sure there could be no identification the men on the rear seat held moore while the chanffeur smeared oil over the number plate and then covered it with dust moor was thrown in the road and held until their machine was started when his captors jumped in the car moore thinks the party bad an indiana machine and believes they bad been attend ing the republican convention judging by their conversation the men lll the rear seat treated the po liceman to cigars and conversed with him hut the chauffeur was quarrelsome and twice be and moore mixed before reaching waukegan and moore drew blood from his face with bis club on one bout epicures cult causes divorce says hadley new haven conn june 2l presi dent arthur k hadley of sale university to-day addressed tie graduating class of tut institution n the philosophy at life tuere are four great systems of philosophy the speaker said the stole epicurean waged between the christian and the epl aseetie and christian a fight is being cnrean cults and to the devotion to epi j eureanisni be said may be ascribed much of the divorce evil of to-day the phi pin leading its devotee to regard only bbj own comfort and luxury iuinus care shattering of physical and mental i u being he said are partly due to those irbo adopt the epicurean philosophy wrecks and deaths in hike of storm iwo persons drown many yachtsmen narrowly escape property damage great . jghtningstrikeschurch michigan city edifice burns and libertyville fair build ings are destroyed rescued in mid-lake miiwaukeeans taken from sinking craft heat is fatal to three storm heat and wave combined yesterday to cause the loss of two lives the prostration of dozens of men and women and the de struction of thous.inds of dollars worth of property in Chicago and other cities bordering the southern bend of lake michigan a thrilling early morning rescue from the waters of lake michigan marked yesterday's trip of the steam ship carolina ef the goodrich linn from Chicago to milwaukee three milwaukee men henry tvrmÂ«.s tames norton and fred redsford crew of the ventura a cruising yacht were about to slip off their overturned craft when the carolina hove in sight in the terrific gale early sunday morn ing lightning shows wrecked craft captain macauliffe of the carolina who was on the bridge heard a faint cry of help the next moment a lightning flash disclosed an over turned sailboat off wind point be tween kenosha and racine many miles from shore with three men hang ing to the slippery hull the carolina hove to at once and the big life boat was lauwsb*d the sea was running so high t eemce that mate mcgilli vray would never be able to get hia boat away without its being crushed against the side of the steamship finally the tiny craft worked its way to the capsized sailboat the carolina was filled with traveling men en route for their national convention in milwaukee and they lined the rail rhile the mate and his crew went on their life saving trip the men were half conscious when res cued the caroma put in at racine and left them at a hospital they left for mil waukee in the afternoon john coombs of the first national bank of Chicago lost his life by drowning at waukegan a similar fate overtook fred suhr sixteen years old at menominee mir several racing yachts were wrecked near michigan city lnd buildings of the lake county fair at liberty ville were struck by lightning and burned to the ground the first presbyterian church at michigan city lnd was destroyed by flames after having been struck by a holt of lightning and near laporte lnd several small build ings were overturned by the gale and oth ers were destroyed by lightning racing crews almost drown another til rilling rescue was that accom plished near michigan city lnd when the crews of two of the yachts of the colum bia yacht club's regatta which had been participating in the forty-mile race were picked up in a drowning condition when the boats were missed from the fleet word was immediately sent to Chicago and the united stales revenue cutter tuscarora was sent to the rescue ten miles oil the indiana port the two missing sailboats were discolored capsized and the men who had manned them were clinging to the rig ging in a fainting condition they wene taken to michigan city lour men on the adventure a sixteen footer bail a narrow escape while off t*j four-mile crib being caught lu the stortn the masthead split and the sail came down on the boat dragging and nearly capsizing the craft the racht became waterlogged and the occupants were ken busy bailing they flew a white undershirt from til top of an oar as n distress signal life savers rescue them this rede flag was seen by the lookout for the columbia yacht club at the mouth of the harbor the vandal a yacht twen ty-one feet over all inbound fr<Â»nt the michigan city races ran i the adventure but could jo nothing to aid her subsequently captain carlin of the m -,;,â€¢_.,, i s â€¢â€¢â€¢ i i oui to the ad venture in a motor bo he w,i aided lin the work >â– â– rescue by captain stirton i , 811 Â„. .. . i b ! adventure was sere i j the mohawk the niantic which but j continued on 4th page 2d column fi weather indications h yfik Chicago and vicinity gen p t a erally fair monday and tuesday ex *, q v4s ce p l possibly local thunder storms â–¼- j ww continued warm monday probably t\3 v cooler tuesday fresh southerly ims jm winds becoming variable j i the ticket you vote i-hrn dont make any difference at the iii examiner employment exchange all you need to do to secure the free services of this uj>-to-date organiza tion for bringing employer and 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Chicago examiner price one cent delivered by carrier 30 cents per month vol vi no 157 a m monday june 22 1908 10 pages labor in Illinois pledges votes to john mitchell for governor state federation plunges into politics with a general call to the primaries o.k on other candidates resolution asking toilers to cast ballots against Taft is introduced candidates indorsed by labor john mitchell governor s j drew rep iiient governor dr j mcguire quincy assembly h w wilson springfield assembly j p morris springfield assembly a kenson decatur assembly t d bare calhoun county assembly w d ryan hep springfield . congress walter bush dem peoria assembly w downey sep lincoln . assembly springfield 111 june 21 0 ganized labor in Illinois entered the arena to-day as an active political factor the state federation in district convention indorsed john mitchell for governor and pledged itself to vote for him in the primaries on august 8 and to do everything in its power to land him in the guberna torial chair next november if he is made the democratic candidate candidates for the state legislature and for state offices who are known friends of union labor were indorsed and an active campaign to get every labor unionist to go to the polls on primary day was begun one hundred representatives nf union la bor gathered from all parts of the state a lively fisbt marked the very opening hour president e r wright called the meeting to order at once there was n troduced a resolution widening the scope of the meeting the convention had been called to con sider the new primary law and its effect upon organized labor when the delegates arrived a strong demand to throw the en tire political situation open to discussion manifested itself in a resolution amending the call to make it read and such other matters in connection with the political sit uation that this body desires to act upon wright opposes amendment president wright led the fight against the adoption of the amendment to the call secretary j f morris and henry walker both of this city led the faction that fa vored it at times the discussion becamo hotter than the heat outside i am in harmony with this convention in any political action it may take shout ed wright but this convention is called for a speclllc purpose the consideration of the primary law and i am opposed io changing the call at this time the debate became loud and once or twice the convention was on the verge of riot but the question was finally put to a vote which disclosed practically no oppo ttuon the amendment being carried by &> to j the fight on this subject occupied the en tire morning but the gates had been opened and during the afternoon with th thermometer at more than 100 lu the stuffy little hall organized labor of lllinoii was put through its ttrst moves as a polit leal pow-er fieldstack called traitor appeals to union men to stick together a wide variety of opinions on the primary law and what it means to labor and an extended dissertation on socialism mixed promiscuously in the free and easy oratory and discussion that was permitted by the lenient chair ' charles fieldstack phlcago who was elected to the last legislature as a labor unionist was openly accused on the floor of having betrayed the labor union move ment by working against labor reforms favored by governcr deneen the attack on fieldstack was extremely bitter field stack was made chairman of the commit tee on labor and industrial affairs of the house and in that position was in control of all labor reform bills delegate harding of Chicago branded fieldstack as a traitor and vigorous ap plause greeted his words this afternoon's discussion showed the Taft has narrow escape from wreck on train as rod on engine breaks engineer declares luck alone pre vents derailing of flyer and great loss of life pittsburg pa june 21 secretary of war william h Taft republican nominee for president had a narrow escape from death between dennlston and coshocton in ohio to-night on the fast train of the fittsbttrg cincinnati & st louis railroad while traveling at fifty miles an hour the piston rod of the locomotive broke and the train narrowly escaped derailment the engineer of the locomotive explained that it was merely good luck that averted a bad accident and great loss of life if the piston rod after it broke had gone under the train said he we would have gone into the ditch as we were run ning fifty miles an hour and the derailment would have been a serious matter for tunately the broken rod landed four inches outside the left rail that saved us mr Taft didn't appear to mind his narrow escape nor did it interfere with his appetite while waiting for another engine at the scene of wreck he wired to eittsburg to have a lunch made ready for him on the train's arrival there when be got off he attacked the lunch vigor ously talking all the while to friends nhont the weather and kindred topics he said he knew nothing about the train accident until told by the conductor of his narrow escape mr Taft left pittsburg at 12:50 and will reach the manhattan hotel in new york to-morrow morning where he will be joined by mrs Taft aerodrome makes 34 miles an hour speed curtiÂ«b junebug flyer covers 1,266 feet in 25 seconds hammondspobt n y june 21.â€”sev eral thousand people to-day witnessed the longest public flight of a heavier than air flying machine when the aerodrome cur tlss junebug covered 1,266 feet in twenty five seconds traveling at the rate of thirty four miles an hour this is the third ma chine produced by the aerial experiment association of which dr alexander gra ham bell is chairman the first attempt was 456 feet at twenty-eight miles an hour and the second flight was 415 feet at a thirty-one and a half mile rate xo at tempt was made to go higher than twenty five feet the junebug has a pair of wings in a fixed position and is propelled by two smaller ones which beat the air in the rear greatest cruiser will take prince to canada new warship of great britain is 530 feet long london june 21 that monstrous formidable warship britain's new armored cruiser indomitable will convey the prince of wales and his suite to canada for the approaching celebration of the quebec ter centenary so the loyal canadians and perhaps their neighbors to the south will have opportunity to see the newest float ing proof that great britain yearns to preserve the world's peace this great war vessel is the fastest the longest the largest and the most heaviiy armored cruiser afloat she displaces 17,250 tons and is 530 feet long president will reply to japan letter story official statement to be issued to day says loeb oxbtbb bay x y june 21 president boosevelt to-morrow will make public a statement regarding the report that he has seut japan the sharpest correspondence ever sent to any nation the announcement of the existence of this sensational diplo matic note was made last night by congress man b a hayes before the asiatic ex clusion league at san jose cal who said the president had told him that japan had been sent such a letter when secretary loeb was first asked to-day regarding the congressman's speech he said he had no personal knowledge of the matter later before the president he said there would probably be an official statement upon the japanese matter to-morrow told he is blind has hysterics regains sight new york june 21 james cantillon former member of the pes moines iowa baseball team and a brother of joseph cantillon manager of the washington american league club was told by special ists here to-day that he was hopelessly blind the announcement caused hysterics and when cantillon became calm he found he could see his right eye was injured seven months ago and was removed in a Chicago hospital to save his left the left eye became worse and to-day specialists had given up hope of his ever being able to see again blow on head gives man dual identity for six months george b harrison kansas editor found chicken-farm ing in southern california debt restores his mind writes himself letter to settie claim and gives wife clew to residence topeka kan june 21 stranger than any tale of fiction the story of george blair harrison son of colonel t w har rison formerly mayor of topeka presents features which stamp mm as unique among victims of abnormal mental distortions harrison until january 4 was one of kansas best known newspaper men an ann arbor graduate a thirty-second degree mason husband of a beautiful wife and father of two boys harrison occupied an envied position in topeka society under the name a h gresham this same man since jnauary 4 has labored on a ranch near san diego and made a name for himself as an expert in poultry raising evincing a keen intimate knowledge of the latest methods in the forced feeding of fancy broilers seemingly obtainable only by years of close study hairison until january 4 had never spent a day on a farm nor raised a chicken causes own restoration as gresham harrison believed he had had business relations with a george harri son in st louis during the world's fair and the thought that he still owed harri son 13.50 for fair souvenirs that he had undertaken to sell for harrison disturbed him mighrtily about two weeks ago gresham wrote a letter to george harrison at topeka and mrs harrison received the letter which read as follows about those world fair souvenirs and cards i took on consignment from you two years ago i nave not forgotten them but it seems that i have been taking you at your word on using all the time i need to work them oft the japanese trays were no good and i had to dump them but all the stuff that would stand advertising printing i had a market for last winter but in kansas city i got a strong-arming down near the tinlon depot that relieved me of my grip with this stuff and pretty much all else i had too for a week i could not even recollect my own name through a welt on my head i should have sent the money early this spring when i had it if i could have : thought of your name and address i could , remember that i owed it but not to whom or how ln fact the s w yt of my cocoa ' nut is still not just what it ought to be i as the fellow says ! wife grasps the clew mrs harrison had never heard of an h gresham but she recognized in the lettel a strong resemblance to her husband's ! handwriting i presently gresham received a lettet j from mrs harrison asking him to send bet a photograph of himself and a description of any marks by which he might bt identified in answer to his letter com plying with her request gresham uexi received the following telegram fron ' topeka you are my husband without a doubt every identification complete am wlrinj " money for your journey to topeka hat better not travel alone communicating with her sister mrs b w swan who went to los angeles twt ' months ago mrs harrison asked that mrs t swan locate the missing husband befort ; mrs swan could put the plan in effect sin , received a telegram from her brother-ln " law stating he was leaving for san l)leg t and would reach los angeles saturday . night - memory is restored " â– > at the station harrison walked straigh by his sister-in law who was awaiting hi 4 recognition as she caught up with bin she threw her arms about him and gav f him a kiss much to his apparent embat t rassment don't you know me george mrs â– swan asked fearful of an utter lack o ' mentality but he answered with a broa e smile i reckon it must be my sister-in-law can't imagine anybody else would be likel to give me jnst that kind of a greeting harrison will leave los angeles for to peka and his family to-morrow morning woman's neck is broken by fall from a buggy youth who accompanied her disap pears and police seek him mrs martha white twenty-three years old imo north wood street was thrown from a buggy at kinzie and north woo.l streets last night and killed iter neck was broken thomas lynch twenty years old who was driving with her was also thrown out when the horse became unman ageable hut jumped up apparently unin jured and pursued the horse six detec tives were unable to find the man or the buggy the police searched all night for lynch who lives at the same bouse where mrs white and her husban i boarded voung bride missing oak park alarmed mrs samuel dunlop rails to meet husband at bisbee residents of oak park are alarmed over the disappearance of mrs samuel dunlop aped seventeen formerly miss margaret harvey who was secretly married may 2 and who has not been heard from since she started to bisl.ee ariz last monday to meet her husband who is twenty a telegram from the bridegroom to the voung woman's father yesterday an nounced that she had not yet arrived dun lop was to meet his bride at oklahoma city okla but the ticket was bought for bls'bee two days before their marriage staortlv after young dunlop had fallen heir insane pastor with mania to slay is killed by flock reason returns as he falls with dozen wounds and he forgives men had shot four persons roamed at night bent on murder while wife ran ahead warning people hermann mo june 21 father for give them for they know not what they do riddled with bullets from the guns of a dozen members of his congregation the rev valentine strauss maniac pastor of the german evangelical church at stople regained his reason a few seconds before his death and with his last words prayed for the kneeling and bareheaded men who had killed him they have been exon erated the kev strauss became insane two months ago with homicidal mania he began roaming the country at night with a shotgun in his hands and a rifle swung over his shoulder from crags and tree tops he fired at men women and children most of the time he missed but on four occasions his aim was good and three men and a woman were slightly wounded leaves home to kill just before his death yesterday he start ed from his home at stople fourteen mi'es southwest of here for fredericksburg three miles from here with intent to kill his wife ran before him shouting a warn ing to neighbors at the blacksmith shop of max knieche she was but a few hundred feet in front of him she shouted warning to the men in the shop just as strauss turned and fired at her he missed then he turned his rifle on knieche again he missed knieche and a dozen armed men who were in the shop ran toward the minister who was again preparing to fire six double-barreled shotguns and an equal num ber of rifles were lired point blank at the mad clergyman's body dies after forgiving slayers wounded in a dozen places the dying pastor staggeved across the roadway into a i pasture and sank under a large oak tree where he had held his first religious serv ices in gasconade county his slayers ran forward and surrounded him strauss head was pillowed on his wife's lap the light of reason gleamed in his fast glazing eyes for the first time in two months he spoke a few words to his wife and then turned his eyes on the bareheaded men kneeling about him looked at theii weapons crossed his hands over his breast â€¢ and died with the words of forgiveness on respect for the cloth kept mr strauss alive for a long time kather than shoot . him his neighbors fled and hid when he was coming 1 in the daytime he would remain at home i for the most part at night he would roam ; the woods armed and trying to kill ; wife gives warning ' mrs strauss spent a great deal of her - time roaming the country in advance of her husband warning neighbors of his ap ' broach in the dead of night she would " come to a cottage and announce that her ; husband was approaching then the shut ter's would be closed the door barred and r the master of the house would sit behind ? it with a gun across his knees and wait until the maniac had passed mrs strauss and their five children es caped unhurt u s grant 11 admires Taft despite speech los axgkles cal june 111 - â€” Taft and sherman are certainly to my liking - ' declared d s grant jr of san diego to-day at the van nuys hotel the reference in mr Taft s speech at the tomb of general grant on decoration day to the fact that the great general had once lieen addicted to drink is not considered by mr grant as meant for a reflection on the character of his father mv sister mis nellie grant sartorls was present when mr Taft delivered his smell " said mr grant and she has in formed me that there was nothing what ever objectionable in anytnlng that was aid by the secretary of wa '. on the eon jrary we believe that mr Taft only in what the storm did henry bermen james norton and fred f redsford milwaukee yachtsmen rescued off racine john coombs Chicago and fred suhr menominee mich drown while bathing victor meyers john munn and george lewis were rescued from raft at rogers park crews of three yachts rescued from overturned crafts in the chicago-michigan city race fair buildings at libertyville struck by lightning and burned first presbyterian church mich igan city struck by lightning and burned heat fatal to three yacht which narrowly escaped be ing wrecked near michigan city its captain and crew sketch of area af fected by storm incidents being num bered as follows 1 overturned yacht picked up 2 etnjr towed to milwaukee ... lake county fair buildings struck by lightning and burned 4 three boys rescued off rogers park from overturned raft 5 yachts in collision in race to michigan city 6 mohawk struck by squall 7 church struck by lightning and btirned in michigan city ind nurses stop fire panic in hospital miss may capron at west side institution heroine of p and s college blaze simultaneously with the turning in of an alarm by a policeman when the col lege of physicians and surgeons ogden avenue and lincoln street was discov ered to be on fire at 10 o'clock last night miss may caprop head nurse in the west side hospital adjoining sent in a special call for forty nurses and prevented u general stampede of the patients there are 100 convalescent patients in the hospital and they were soon made aware of the close proximity of the fire by the hoarse shouts of the firemen and the glare of the flames a mad rush for the exits and tire es capes followed but the pauic-strlekeu pa tieuts were met by the nurses who had responded to the call sent by miss capron and quieted they came from the nurses home at 701 west congress street the lire started in the chemical labora tory on the third floor of the building and gained rapid headway for fifteen min utes after the arrival of the tire depart ment it was a question whether it could be prevented from spreading to the hos pital building the corridors of the hos pital were filled with smoke but the doors of the rooms were kept closed and the patients were not greatly incon venienced the greatest danger was that crazed by fear some ot the patients on the side of the building where they could sure the lire would jump out of the windows miss capron took charge of the relief corps of nurses and placed them to the best advantage they assured the fright ened patients that there was no danger but stood ready to aid them to escape if the signal should be given the college is immediately west ol the hospital and the two buildings are con nected with several passageways across the street south of the burning building a simitar scene was being enacted in the t'niversity hospital with miss xel lie mcculloui playing the role of heroine the clanger was less however and she had less difficulty with her patients the county and prances willarcl hos pitals are also in the neighborhood and the nurses and attendants in these institu tions were kept bo#y quieting the nervous patients the lire burned its way through the roof but was finally put out with a damage of about s'j.."ioo bicyclist dangerously injured by automobile andrew hansen twenty-five years old 159 upton street was struck by an auto mobile and severely injured while riding a bicrcle south in sheridan road near mel rose stieet yesterday morning lie was taken to the Chicago onion hospital where it was found he had suffered a frac tured sk.:il and probably internal injuries the automobile was owned by m kirk man 1419 ridge avenue evanstou it was driven hv m balr kirkman's chauf feur who stopped his machine and took speedy auto party kidnaps policeman glengoe timer beguiled by false promises and town loses fine special policeman frank h moore of glencoe declares it is a shame to take money for police duty when he is given free automobile rides and furnished with good cigars to smoke at noon yesterday moore arrested a chauffeur driving three men through glencoe at about twenty-five miles an hour drive back to the timers and we will get your speed said policeman moore as he stepped upon the side of the machine we are in a big hurry to get up thj shore said one of the men get lu and we will go over to the judge and pay our fine so we can be on our way moore got in and they started for the town hall but the machine speeded up and the driver refused to stop and when moore tried to climb the front seat to guide the machine into the fence the pas sengers held him back when the machine was making a speed of about fifty miles an hour the men re leased moore and told him to get out any rime he wished he was finally hauled three miles the other side of waukegan and turned loose in a field to make sure there could be no identification the men on the rear seat held moore while the chanffeur smeared oil over the number plate and then covered it with dust moor was thrown in the road and held until their machine was started when his captors jumped in the car moore thinks the party bad an indiana machine and believes they bad been attend ing the republican convention judging by their conversation the men lll the rear seat treated the po liceman to cigars and conversed with him hut the chauffeur was quarrelsome and twice be and moore mixed before reaching waukegan and moore drew blood from his face with bis club on one bout epicures cult causes divorce says hadley new haven conn june 2l presi dent arthur k hadley of sale university to-day addressed tie graduating class of tut institution n the philosophy at life tuere are four great systems of philosophy the speaker said the stole epicurean waged between the christian and the epl aseetie and christian a fight is being cnrean cults and to the devotion to epi j eureanisni be said may be ascribed much of the divorce evil of to-day the phi pin leading its devotee to regard only bbj own comfort and luxury iuinus care shattering of physical and mental i u being he said are partly due to those irbo adopt the epicurean philosophy wrecks and deaths in hike of storm iwo persons drown many yachtsmen narrowly escape property damage great . jghtningstrikeschurch michigan city edifice burns and libertyville fair build ings are destroyed rescued in mid-lake miiwaukeeans taken from sinking craft heat is fatal to three storm heat and wave combined yesterday to cause the loss of two lives the prostration of dozens of men and women and the de struction of thous.inds of dollars worth of property in Chicago and other cities bordering the southern bend of lake michigan a thrilling early morning rescue from the waters of lake michigan marked yesterday's trip of the steam ship carolina ef the goodrich linn from Chicago to milwaukee three milwaukee men henry tvrmÂ«.s tames norton and fred redsford crew of the ventura a cruising yacht were about to slip off their overturned craft when the carolina hove in sight in the terrific gale early sunday morn ing lightning shows wrecked craft captain macauliffe of the carolina who was on the bridge heard a faint cry of help the next moment a lightning flash disclosed an over turned sailboat off wind point be tween kenosha and racine many miles from shore with three men hang ing to the slippery hull the carolina hove to at once and the big life boat was lauwsb*d the sea was running so high t eemce that mate mcgilli vray would never be able to get hia boat away without its being crushed against the side of the steamship finally the tiny craft worked its way to the capsized sailboat the carolina was filled with traveling men en route for their national convention in milwaukee and they lined the rail rhile the mate and his crew went on their life saving trip the men were half conscious when res cued the caroma put in at racine and left them at a hospital they left for mil waukee in the afternoon john coombs of the first national bank of Chicago lost his life by drowning at waukegan a similar fate overtook fred suhr sixteen years old at menominee mir several racing yachts were wrecked near michigan city lnd buildings of the lake county fair at liberty ville were struck by lightning and burned to the ground the first presbyterian church at michigan city lnd was destroyed by flames after having been struck by a holt of lightning and near laporte lnd several small build ings were overturned by the gale and oth ers were destroyed by lightning racing crews almost drown another til rilling rescue was that accom plished near michigan city lnd when the crews of two of the yachts of the colum bia yacht club's regatta which had been participating in the forty-mile race were picked up in a drowning condition when the boats were missed from the fleet word was immediately sent to Chicago and the united stales revenue cutter tuscarora was sent to the rescue ten miles oil the indiana port the two missing sailboats were discolored capsized and the men who had manned them were clinging to the rig ging in a fainting condition they wene taken to michigan city lour men on the adventure a sixteen footer bail a narrow escape while off t*j four-mile crib being caught lu the stortn the masthead split and the sail came down on the boat dragging and nearly capsizing the craft the racht became waterlogged and the occupants were ken busy bailing they flew a white undershirt from til top of an oar as n distress signal life savers rescue them this rede flag was seen by the lookout for the columbia yacht club at the mouth of the harbor the vandal a yacht twen ty-one feet over all inbound frâ– â– rescue by captain stirton i , 811 Â„. .. . i b ! adventure was sere i j the mohawk the niantic which but j continued on 4th page 2d column fi weather indications h yfik Chicago and vicinity gen p t a erally fair monday and tuesday ex *, q v4s ce p l possibly local thunder storms â–¼- j ww continued warm monday probably t\3 v cooler tuesday fresh southerly ims jm winds becoming variable j i the ticket you vote i-hrn dont make any difference at the iii examiner employment exchange all you need to do to secure the free services of this uj>-to-date organiza tion for bringing employer and employe - r i together is to insert a mall ad in the k situation wanted columns of the examiner try it it pays xaminer employment exchange ft washington street 1 1 5 fifth avenue ii areyou satisfied ffim ;? 1 2fl 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